How to rename text files based on text strings in the files

Mechanix2Go January 25, 2021 at 02:37:24

:: ren file title - author from lines in file ::====== script starts here =============== :: :: TA.bat 2021-01-25 16:27:55.65 @echo off & setLocal enableDELAYedeXpansioN :main for /f "tokens=* delims= " %%a in ('dir/b *.txt') do ( call :sub1 %%a ) goto :eof :sub1 for /f "tokens=* delims= " %%i in ('find "Title: " ^< "%*"') do ( set T=%%i & set T=!T:Title: =! ) for /f "tokens=* delims= " %%i in ('find "Author: " ^< "%*"') do ( set A=%%i & set A=!A:Author: =! ) echo ren "%*" "!T!- !A!.TXT" goto :eof ::====== script ends here ================= ===================== M2

That was amazing sir! You are a ninja. That worked perfectly on 27,258 of 32,448 files. It looks like most of the ones that failed either had illegal characters in the Title (e.g. : or "), were duplicates, or had the title broken across two lines so appeared to be duplicates, e,g.: Title: Chicken Soup for the Hot Coder ____ Vol. 1 Batch Magic. (the "_" are 7 spaces) Thank you very much. I will search around to see if there is a smooth way to add duplicated detection and maybe append a number to the base title. message edited by spindlehead

Mechanix2Go January 26, 2021 at 04:23:12

Yep, you can append a number to repeats. And you can strip illegal chars. As for title or author string over two lines, that's a mess. ===================== M2